If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.